DC-DC converters: From discrete towards fully integrated CMOS

Author

Steyaert, M. ; Van Breussegem, T. ; Meyvaert, H. ; Callemeyn, P. ; Wens, M.

Author_Institution

K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

fYear

2011

Firstpage

59

Lastpage

66

Abstract

Monolithic integration of electronic systems is one of the major techniques to reduce cost, size and power consumption in state-of-the-art consumer applications. Integration of transceivers and other mixed-signal building blocks has proven to be a very successful approach to build low cost, compact and portable systems [1]. Remarkably a certain building block remains discrete in commercial applications: the switched-power supply. This paper will demonstrate how recent research efforts cleared the path to develop fully integrated DC-DC converters in standard CMOS.

Keywords

CMOS digital integrated circuits; DC-DC power convertors; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; transceivers; DC-DC converter; electronic system; integrated CMOS; mixed-signal building block; monolithic integration; portable system; power consumption reduction; state-of-the-art consumer application; switched-power supply; transceiver integration; Capacitance; Capacitors; Inductors; Metals; Regulators; Switches; Video recording;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC), 2011 Proceedings of the European

Conference_Location

Helsinki

ISSN

1930-8876

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0707-0

Electronic_ISBN

1930-8876

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ESSDERC.2011.6044234

Filename

6044234